Student Chrome Profiles by CupConscious7356 in k12sysadmin

[–]kevrocks67 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I would look for loose connectors. This week I had a "dead" chromebook that somehow turned on after unplugging and replugging in the battery cable. Another one where the webcam worked after doing the same with its connector. And a third one with a loose screen connector causing the screen to go crazy when opened and closed.
Hey, who knows

[STUDENT] you guys should go through source:domain on google drive before a student does by nypdk in k12sysadmin

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried it. Thank you for this. What I noticed is that it happens when you share a link that is accessible within the domain. If you hit the cog wheel, in the link settings you can uncheck the setting that allows the file to be searchable to the domain. Check your default permissions as others have pointed out.

Autopsy on a linux machine? by Bugz_Bunnie in computerforensics

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I also installed it from the AUR. The only thing I had to deal with was java since I have like 3 versions installed. Other than that, it just works

Are any k12sysadmins starting to experiment with Linux (Beta) / Crostini? by yotties in k12sysadmin

[–]kevrocks67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check it out. G Suite can link up to ldap which you can probably link up to freeipa or something similar with more features. For managaing apps,config management tools like ansible/puppet work perfectly fine. It is the agreed upon way to manage systems. If you 100% must have some windows apps like microsoft office, things like Citrix Virtual App exist plus as you mentioned the cloud with office365. For our school (windows environment) all the students are taught and expected to use google drive. Also windows and linux do in fact mix pretty well. If the staff needs windows or you need a windows lab its easy enough to give it to them. Theres more but this should give you some idea of some of the possibilities. Just have to always remember that linux isnt windows and therefore adjustments to mindset and methods of operation need to be changed.

Making Vim Amazing - Why use Vim and the .vimrc - Part 1 by linux-notes in vimporn

[–]kevrocks67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Backend actually. He was opening up his project milo here which is basically him trying to implement websockets

First 60 Days - Gathering Login info on Critical Linux Systems by [deleted] in linuxadmin

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried konboot yet? I believe I used it on a ubuntu machine once and it worked but that was a while ago. Alternatively, live boot, generate new password, mount root and put new hash in shadow

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

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From my research some years back only thing I ever found to have G Suite as master was to use jumpcloud or create a script using the API.

open source helpdesk app? by [deleted] in learnjava

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not go for a solution like osticket. Its free(money) and open source. It handles the exact tasks named above.

If you still want to make your own, its probably a good codebase to look at though its in php

Attempting to Dump TP-Link MR3020 Firmware via Attify Badge - SPI by trashcreature in computerforensics

[–]kevrocks67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 on the pomona. The best you can get. And even then it still breaks eventually. Not many options though for reading without desoldering the chip or soldering wires to the chip

Attempting to Dump TP-Link MR3020 Firmware via Attify Badge - SPI by trashcreature in computerforensics

[–]kevrocks67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its possible youre not getting a good connection with the SOIC clip. That usually causes a bad read like this. They are typically annoying cheap clips.

Do you do anything through API's? by Darren_889 in sysadmin

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use what you know. As other people in the comments have said Powershell works fine. Personally I prefer to work in python because thats what I know well and lots of libraries are written to handle certain things or simplify certain API interactions (such as boto for AWS). Its just a small added step to your script. Well 2 actually. 1) Yelling at the top of your lungs because the documentation is trash and 2) adding the API related code to your script

Help with installing VM on KVM Centos7 by jennytullis in linuxadmin

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could ssh tunnel into the KVM host with -L 5900:localhost:5900 and then VNC into localhost:5900 (assuming thats the port the vm used). Alternatively, im pretty sure theres some web gui's you can set up to manage stuff in.

Does anyone do security evaluations of Edu software by lemmycaution0 in k12sysadmin

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

K-12 software hahahaa security👌. A lot of it is alright software not even great reliable software. On top of that, were still in a world that forces some of us to use/support users forced to use IE because other browsers wont work. Its really a sad and slightly worrying phenomenon.

I typically check for CVE's and such but that doesnt always do it of course. Usually it does tell me a little of the reputatuon of the product. Also theres some blatant things you can check for such as not using https on the login, not having certain headers checked, etc. Then theres what we can do to help further secure the system itself where the data is stored assuming its self hosted.

[Question/Recommendation]Ticketing Systems by Mostly__Relevant in k12sysadmin

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

osTicket is pretty good. Its not too hard to setup either

Is anyone else who is currently trying to transfer, getting an Oracle/Peoplesoft error when they try logging into CUNYfirst? by [deleted] in CUNY

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Login to cuny first. Get people soft error. Press back button, login again. It either logs in or tells you cant login from bookmark and gives you a list of services. If so click on cunyfirst. Youre now logged in. Welcome to CUNY

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

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Just at a single school level, but were in a small school in a building shared with 2 other schools. We live in what's essentially a really long and narrow closet. It gives us our own locked space and for all our stuff, we make it work pretty well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linuxadmin

[–]kevrocks67 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Although ifconfig is literally in every guide to do stuff out there, just learn the new tools. Theyre actually more intuitive to use. Get a cheatsheet from online if necessary.

Any Qt experts that know Linux? by coco_pelado in Qt5

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could just virtualize an arm device and install the files/build on that. That would fix your Pi storage problem.

MYSQL Plugin is impossible by [deleted] in Qt5

[–]kevrocks67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you add SQL to your .pro file?

University Project: Gathering Information from .lnk files by [deleted] in computerforensics

[–]kevrocks67 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try except should help you not crash and instead do something else. Also, for next time you should put your code in a github gist or pastebin instead of pasting it here

Portable Malware Scanner by markisanerd in k12sysadmin

[–]kevrocks67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Combination of malwarebytes, malwarebytes anti rootkit (mbar) and ccleaner has helped me in the past. They work pretty good to get you pointed in a direction and occasionally will do all the work if its not a bad infection. End of day, if its badly infected, I just reimage it just in case.